A= Troy and ShariB= Dyian and RobertC= Jared and KathyD= Dameon and DavidE= Vaughn and UrielF= Clinton and BryanG= Chanelin and GenesisH= Nolan and GavinJ= Lidia and DianaK= Jordan and ChesterL= Terae and Nick

A= Bruce and EricB= Alexis and CarmenC= Erika and StephanyD= Tremone and MikeE= Taylor and AutumnF= Cody and DerekG= Denzel and Vo’JaunH= Karline and AaliyahI= Jessica and EdwinJ= DaisjanaeK= Toni and JasmynL= O’Neil and WillieM= Freddy and HienN=Jyron and ShanikaO= Janae and Elexus

A= Tommylee and JohnnyB= Aida and AliceC= Lionel and HoldenD= Macie and AustinE= Jowan and MyahF= Carlos and RavenG= Hailey and SarahH= Dusty and TanI= Marlett and ZachJ= Philip and TakodaK= Angela and LilibethL= Greg and GregrionneM= Tatiana and JosueN= Dejanique and JanikaO= Antonio and RashaadP= Devin and Sashara

YOUR PACKET

• Your packet is due FULL AND COMPLETED by December 03, 2012– next Monday!

• You will complete almost the entire packet in class.• One assignment may require time out of class.

Your SONNET ASSIGNMENT will be assigned tomorrow.

• If you lose this packet, you will be assigned additional makeup work!!

•The packet is worth 100 POINTS

• Take this seriously, and enjoy this unit

ENTRY PROCEDURE

• The table of contents lists the starting page for each day this week.

• Your Do Now will be the first thing listed.

• I will tell you whether the Do Now will be silent or

group work, but no matter what the first five minutes of class are silent time.

• The bell is your signal to start the Do Now. Start the Do Now right when the bell rings so you don’t lose points on your packet!!!

5 minutes: silent Do Now

Write the following definitions down in your packet.

A drama is a story written to be acted out, usually on stage, by actresses and actors who take the parts of specificcharacters.

A play is a drama acted out live and onstage.

Act 1: Introduction to Drama Scene 1: The Genre

 Short stories and & novels are written to

be read, while dramas and plays are

written to be acted out.

Act 1: Introduction to Drama Scene 1: The Genre

 As a result, plays and dramas are written

in the form of a script.

Like the plot of a story, the plot of a drama follows a

rising-and-falling structure.

Climaxtension at highest point

Resolutionconflict is settled, play ends

Complicationstension builds

Expositionconflict is introduced

Structure of a DramaScene 1: The Genre

Scene 2: The People

Playwright: the author of a drama/play; describes the setting and actions

Scene 2: The People

Director: interprets the characters, actions, and stage directions given by the playwright

Scene 2: The People

Actors: perform the play

• deciding how to interpret and speak the lines of the play

The actors and director bring characters to life by

• building on the playwright’s stage directions for actions and movements

The Characters

[Mary takes off her jacket and faces the audience.]

Mary: Can I make it on my own?

Scene 2: The People

Costume Designer: creates the costumes based on the ideas of the playwright and director

Scene 2: The People

Technical Designer: creates the set and props based on the ideas of the playwright and director

The stage’s set might be

A set can be changed from scene to scene—sometimes with machinery and sometimes with just a change in lighting.

realistic and detailed

The Stage

abstract or minimal

Other important elements of set design are costumes and props.

• Costumes tell us about the characters and the time and place. They can be elaborate or minimal.

• Props are items that the characters carry or handle onstage.

The Stage

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The story of a play is divided into Acts and Scenes

THE PLAY

ACTS

SCENES

A script is the text of a play

Stage Directions: instructions for acting out the play

[Mary takes off her jacket and faces the audience.]

Mary: Can I make it on my own?

Characters’ speech takes the form of

• Dialogue—conversation between characters

• Monologue—a long speech by one character to one or more other characters

• Soliloquy—a speech by a character alone onstage, speaking to himself or herself or to the audience

The Characters

Aside

Sometimes a character speaks to the audience or to another character in an aside, dialogue that is not supposed to be heard by the other characters onstage.

The Characters

Before permanent theaters were built, touring acting companies called minstrels performed

Early Elizabethan Theaters

• in the courtyards of inns or wherever they could rent space

• on temporary platform stages

• to an audience who stood around the stage or sat in balconies surrounding the courtyard

The first permanent theater, or playhouse, in England was• built by James Burbage in 1576

• located outside the city walls of London• torn down in 1599.

Its timbers were used by Shakespeare and his company to build the Globe

• called “The Theater”

Shakespeare wrote most of his plays for the Globe Theater. The Globe Theater was

The Globe

• a round (or polygonal) three-story building

• called the “wooden O” in Henry V

The most famous Renaissance playhouse is The Globe.

The Globe’s main stage was a platform stage that

• projected into a yard open to the sky

• had trapdoors in the floor

main stage

The Globe’s inner stage was

• curtained off

• flanked by two doors for entrances and exits

inner stage

The balcony or upper stage could be used as

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• Juliet’s balcony

• the high walls of a castle

• the bridge of a shipupper stage

• Plays were performed in the afternoon.

. . . Look, love, what envious streaksDo lace the severing clouds in yonder east.Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund dayStands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops.

from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• No stage lighting was used.

• Very few sets—scenery, furniture, etc.—were used. Scenes were “set” by the playwright’s language– and the viewer’s imagination.

• The rich sat in covered bleaches surrounding the stage, while the poor stood near the stage.

• Plays were performed by all-male medieval trade guilds. Female roles were played by boys.

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• Actors often wore elaborate costumes.

Life and Times of William Shakespeare

Shake-speak!

• “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” Henry IV, Part III

Shake-speak!

• “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” Henry IV, Part III

• The King is powerful and has a crown, but he can never really rest because of the weight of responsibility he carries and the constant troubles that come with being King.

Shake-speak!

• “All that glistens is not gold.” The Merchant of Venice

Shake-speak!

• “All that glistens is not gold.” The Merchant of Venice

Just because something looks good doesn’t mean it is and vice versa. Things are not always as they seem.

Shake-speak!1: “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Midsummer Night’s Dream

2: “The world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances…” As You Like It

Shake-speak!

1: “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Midsummer Night’s Dream

Everyone has ups and downs in relationships, and just because things might get a bit “bumpy” doesn’t mean you should necessarily stop the journey! Trouble is inevitable even in relationships defined by “true love.”

Shake-speak!2: “The world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven stages.”As You Like It

This is a metaphor meant to show that life can seem meaningless. Birth and death (exits and entrances) are inevitable, and every man who dies of old age experiences the same things, from infancy to senility.

Shake-speak!• 3: “Cowards die many times before

their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.” Julius Caesar

4: “Out, out, brief candle!Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.” Macbeth

Shake-speak!• 3: “Cowards die many times before

their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.” Julius Caesar

Shake-speak!• 3: “Cowards die many times before

their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.” Julius Caesar

Brave men don’t really think about their own deaths. It will happen, and it is foolish to waste time considering that fact. Therefore, braven men only epxereience “taste” death onece—when it actually happens. Cowards fear death and dwell upon it, metaphorically dying “many times.”

Shake-speak!4: “Out, out, brief candle!Life’s but a waking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”Macbeth Life is pointless and worthless. Life

is like being a poor actor in a very bad play. The playwright is an “idiot,” meaning that life is rather stupid and amounts to absolutely nothing in the long run—“signifying nothing.”

Exit Ticket

• Before you leave, be prepared to answer one of the following questions:

1. What is a drama?

2. What is one thing that makes a play different than a story?

3. What is one thing you learned about The Globe?

4. What is one thing you learned about Shakespeare?